Ripples

It takes one rosy link, to latch on to a ladder of highs,
the world is a chain, it ripples open, as it closes in together,
and it is waiting to devour you,
hungry to worship you,
hungry to break you.


There is no reward greater than disappearing.

Fool

What do you want, after you get?
How long will you stand on this horizon of dots?

I could be the fool,
the only fool,
whose life passed by-
explaining my lifelessness as wait for grander dreams.

Certainty cannot be revisited.
I am oceans, that have the power to gleam,
yet I watch each one find their glory
as I stand still
resisting motion.
Nothing I am to you
is true,
no love is grand enough,
no picture beautiful enough,
no drawing good enough,
no knowing is knowing enough,
All I am is a means
to something more,
something that cannot justify all I am, yet.

Which?

This world or that?
Shutting away or soaking that which is around?
Where do i lie, and
which is ignorance, anyway?

it takes a misjudgement of sight to move a thing from its static position, to move anything at all.

i'll never know what lurks inside you.

kites in progress

sketches at Escape festival

steve, tritha and paul

warier and lubna - as we sat on the steps talking

sleeping

shiv listening

forgot his name

felt-pen

Making thoughts flow on a computer screen. without edits - as i have only known with a pen between my fingers.  Silver keys and a golden morning.

There is beauty in it's endless possibilities.

I am overwhelmed by it's delicious vastness, by its compelling energy,
I open one half of my window to feel the first flickers of an orange and blue dawn on a chilly September morning.
I sit staring at you. The touch of the bunch at the ends of my sleeves distracts me. 

I wish i could latch the door, I think, and push the limits of this beautiful awakening from numbness, Fly. But the latch is taken off.

Im scared this moment will take over me, tumbling gliding into the concentric depths of this abyss, once again, as it always does, face to face with the realisation that i was not living, or if i'm not, now, then i was in a place not meant for me. The realization that i am everything i detest, that i gave in easy. Being you, only so i never could say much later, i never knew what i had left, to choose what i did.

Must we experience what we are not, to know what we are?

The lump in my throat has a form, a volume today, and as much as there are tasks to do, responsibilities to tend to, a balance to keep with, i'd rather be a loser today and sit here writing silly old fashioned dialogues.

The pasts behind this savage desire are manifest, I too might years from now, become you because we are all just at different places of the mind. It isn't time or age, but your eyes bespoke what others may have misread, and I let you walk over me thus.

Had I not left it there, if it was another place and time, had I found an anchor in this boat, I could have sailed with you. If only i could hold on, if only I could get on the boat, if only I could trust. You stand there, a little boy, back in a time when you waited longingly, wistfully, for the world to corrupt you.

But now you are a man who wants to dirty the young to shed the years of dirt you have picked, and the young must only live their youthful dreams of heart shaped boxes. Yet, the monster of age makes you want their innocent dreams. Bare bodies, bare bodies, nakedness, a little bit of anything, a little wildness, just anything, such is growing up. I will see you again, and take this to its shore.

Could your deepest instincts fool you? the only thing you can believe?
And where does failure take you - to giving up? to growing up?

Growing up may be another word for our failure to fight for a pure innocence that is lost on the world.

suhana: in degrees

These are portraits of suhana,a young girl i knew, in varying degrees of abstraction. theyre not in the same colour scheme since they've been done at different instances of time and only came together as an exploration in hindsight, although that would've been ideal if the idea is to observe how what we feel an object changes with how much we see of it.
it is only in the confines of a black box, knowing its limits can you embark on a limitless journey, that might have an end.
the smaller your sample, the more layers you can peel.
i wonder where she is, if shes happy where she is.

sikkim: drawings on the train

pseudo intimate moment

 

              "mother!"

            from the window

           radha 

drawings, here and there

I draw, when not on brief, to try to forget how to see, which we otherwise live doing. mostly without a concept, a word for it, a meaning. i could never quite do work and doccument it at the same time, either becasue i am never happy with what i see, because its done without a purpose or set brief, i do not know with what meaning or context to present it, or becasue i am generally too soporific to take that burden upon myself; i did although make a conscious effort to update the internet of my works on coroflot in the last two or three years. 

www.coroflot.com/skyissea

rabbi's cat

artwork i found inspiring. there are a plethora of comics out there which rest strongly on the power of the story,on words,on what they are saying more than how they are saying it; most of the others are dotted with hyper realsim, digital effects, dark settings. they seem designed to numb you to the grandiose of smallness, with their effortless largeness, and push you into a reality that the wolrd is selling to you every second. it is also natural, since the graphic novel is a medium where images that follow the speed of time they were carried out in, are fit together to communicate something, no one image is a stand alone story, and the time constraint does not allow for the artist to work towards making each of those many drawings a work of art in itself. Id rather create an eight page book in four years where page is a story in itself, independent, a book on its own. yet, i long to see a book where the balance of beauty in its depiction and storytelling is euqally perfected. once in every while, i come across one. rabbi's cat came close to that.

evocative, strongly consistent ,bold artwork.